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The Environment After a Mass Extinction
July 25, 2012 | Bryn Mawr College

“Conventional wisdom is that it took about five million years for life to recover from the events that led to the extinction. However, it remains unclear as to what the environmental factors were that made it so difficult for life to reestablish itself.” Quoted from the Bryn Mawr College press release.


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